She woke from a deep sleep with a single, vivid image in her mind’s eye—two women standing side by side, one dressed in the sober, neck-to-ankle garb of a hundred years ago, the other in the clothes of today. The first woman was Dr. Mary Clementina De Garis, the second more amorphous and ill defined. It took Cassandra a moment to understand she was simply a placeholder, a representative of the young women who aspired to be doctors today.
A buzz of excitement fizzed in her belly as she pieced together the fragments her subconscious had revealed overnight.
The old and the new. The trailblazer and the women who followed in her footsteps. An engaging, challenging examination of past and present culture. She would find a young female medical student. Maybe even more than one. And she would fo
